"I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalistâ€”a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myselfâ€¦"

-- W. Eugene Smith

#Honesty Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Artist Quotes

“To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.”
“You should always be aware that your head creates your world.”
“Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.”
“If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.”
“In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.”

Source : "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.
“We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.”
“I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.”
“I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.”

Source : "CNN's Amanpour", www.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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